Author Description

This old-fashioned storybook for children aged eight to one hundred and eight is beautifully illustrated with twenty-eight full-page line drawings by Tom Nelson, who also did the illustrations for To a Different Drumbeat.According to old Scandinavian folk traditions, trolls were beings whose magic powers could only be used at night. On death, they were transformed into rocks and boulders that formed the landscape. There were many kinds of trolls: mountain trolls, forest trolls, water trolls, but the biggest and strongest of all the trolls were those who lived inside the mountains. This timeless tale is guaranteed to charm children of all ages.